Vienna, Lion Pride Hotel.

When Solomon Rothschild got up early to pick up the newspaper, he almost sprayed a mouthful of old blood on the newspaper.

"The principal dancers of the four major troupes resigned at the same time and will make their debut as a group. This news spread the front pages of major newspapers, especially the grapevine newspapers, which made it unrecognizable, but it was more eye-catching.

At this time, the black market business was Solomon's only stable income in Vienna, apart from the bank, and the theater was the façade. At this time, the façade of the façade has been taken away, how can he not be angry?

But one thing that struck Solomon was the resignation of the principal dancers of the four major troupes at the same time. If it's just one, it's very likely to be a conspiracy by other families.

But the chief dancers of the four major troupes were poached at the same time, that is, there was a fifth force that wanted a piece of the pie in Vienna. At this time, although this behavior has earned enough eyeballs for the appearance of the fifth party, it is also equivalent to declaring war on the four major forces at the same time.

The person who does this kind of thing is either an idiot or has a big backer.

In Solomon's previous experience, this behavior was no different from suicide, but he had a sense of foreboding. Maybe the other party really has enough confidence, just like the Bavarian Mutual Aid Association swept away the underworld forces in Vienna at that time.

No one would have thought that an outside gang could become the leader of the Viennese underground in less than a decade.

Of course, people would never have imagined that this gang would have something to do with the royal family, but those in the know did not dare to say it, because the royal family and the government would not admit it for the sake of face.

Then the person who speaks is slandering the royal family and slandering the government, which is a serious crime, and the minimum punishment for both crimes is exile.

Thinking of this, Solomon still decided to wait and see, after all, the four major troupes have their own forces behind them, and the cake of the Vienna secret passage is so big.

One more person will give everyone less points, so it's better to let this new person disappear.

In fact, someone had already tried it, and as soon as Franz and his party's carriage left, they were followed.

Fortunately, he had arranged 500 spies in advance. The gangsters who were following him were stunned, because suddenly someone made a gesture, and the whole street rushed straight at them as if they were crazy.

Several gangsters were pinned to the ground before they could react, and then they were severely beaten in the interrogation room of the secret police, and they summoned everything out.

These guys are from Bohemia, and they are thugs raised by the wealthy Winster family, and they specialize in handling unseemly business matters.

The Winster family did not have much business in Vienna and was the weakest of the four theater companies.

But it was also the fastest rising among them, and it took only a few decades to go from a small nobleman of unknown origin to the emperor of Bohemia, and even the governors and high-ranking officials had to visit him first.

Without the approval of the Winster family, even government officials would not be able to take office, and even if they did, they would die or be ruined.

Franz investigated a little, and this man said that he was the king, but in fact he was just a slave in the family of Archduke Karl.

Winster's father bribed him to become the deacon of Casimir (the adoptive father of Archduke Karl) in Bohemia, and for decades he became a local tyrant, but not enough to be king.

In Winster's generation, he continued to use the family of the Grand Duke Karl as a cover to reap the benefits, and on the other hand, he judged the situation and became the largest patron and de facto leader of the Czech national independence movement.

This made the Winster family a force to be reckoned with in Bohemia, and even high-ranking officials and governors had to act according to their family's face if they wanted to live a stable life, otherwise their own jurisdiction would be in turmoil.

In addition, Winster also had a force of 5,000 men, named the Czech National Revolutionary Army, which was actually his group of thugs, and what he did was to watch the field and guard the family business for him.

The purpose of these thugs is to find a few easy targets to tie up, and then demand ransom from their families to teach them a lesson.

But he didn't expect Franz's side to be arrested for being prepared.

It just so happened that Franz was worried that there was no place to temporarily settle the girl group he had set up, so he asked people to continue to interrogate those few in order to collect more incriminating evidence.

The secret police are very good at interrogation, especially purposeful interrogation. During this period, there was a steward of the Winster family in Vienna who wanted to come to the prison of the secret police, and his arrogant attitude was memorable.

The man apparently knew more and more than the thugs, and the steward was sent to prison by the head of the secret police.

After a "friendly" interaction, the Winster family was convicted of dozens of crimes, including but not limited to human trafficking, forced prostitution, bullying, kidnapping, assassination, poisoning, collusion with foreign governments, and betraying domestic intelligence.

Franz wanted the Winster family's estate in Vienna, and the head of the secret police understood what he meant when he heard this, and changed the Winster family's steward in Vienna on the same day.

The Winster family crest was thrown to the ground and replaced with a letter "K".

The next day, an army marched from Vienna to Prague.

At this time, in a French-style mansion with an area of 24,000 square meters in the center of Prague, Eric Winster was watching his men twist the winch stick again and again, and the tortured person was rolling his eyes up, foaming at the mouth, and struggling weakly on all fours, as if he wanted to grasp something, as if he wanted to kill someone

The victim was the son of a wealthy merchant who was originally a small wealthy family, but with the accession of the Austrian Empire to the German Customs Union, orders increased significantly.

It was supposed to be a great thing, but his own property was taken by Baron Winster. His father was reluctant to sell the family property, and Baron Winster's offer was too low to refuse.

Baron Winster called the rich merchant family the Austrian lackeys, and then a large number of Czechs came to the door to beat the rich merchant to death and robbed him of all his belongings.

His heart bleeds as he watched his disheveled mother, blindly searching for his father's remains in his ruined home.

He wants revenge! But the power of the Winster family is so huge that no lawyer is willing to avenge him.

In the end, even if an upright judge risked his future and his life, he only got a hundred florins in pension and a very reluctant "I'm sorry".

It took him three years to finally get the opportunity to assassinate Baron Winster, but he failed.

For such an assassination, Baron Winster was not surprised and not afraid. On the contrary, he liked it, especially the public execution of the Assassins.

Every public execution can deter Xiaoxiao, and every public execution can make him feel that he is one step closer to the pinnacle of power.

Baron Winster lazily shook his wine glass as he thought "This is not the first assassin, and it won't be the last."

Suddenly, someone stumbled in.

"Mr. Winster! Someone told you to get out." The man looked very flustered.

Winster likes to be called Mr. because he seems to be more accessible and progressive. Of course, there is another aspect, that is, he feels that the baron is too small and does not match his status.

Winster wanted to be the president, the great president of the Republic of Bohemia

"Who? Let him wait, don't you see that I'm busy here? Winster's words were already filled with anger.

Winster usually has a lot of power, and usually when he talks like this, the other person keeps his mouth shut and is in fear.

But the man said anyway.

"Mr. Winster, get out of here. There were a lot of people out there, and they all had guns."

"Guns?" Winster snorted coldly, and he said to himself, "What is a gun?" I still have fifty guns in my manor outside the city! There are not many war horses, only two thousand. As long as I want, it won't be a problem to take Prague tomorrow. ”

But the fact that someone came to the door with a gun piqued Winster's interest, and it had been many years since anyone dared to challenge his position in Prague.

Of course, he was not afraid, because at this time there were more than two hundred gunmen in the mansion, and these people were not ordinary people, but the elite of the Czech Republican Army who had undergone long-term training.

"Tell me, which one of you wants to argue with me?" As soon as Winster's words came out, the backbone members of the surrounding families laughed, and they really all felt that there was nothing to be afraid of in this world.

No one but God can do anything to Mr. Winster, but seeing that he often goes in and out of church without being punished by God, it may be that God has acquiesced in his actions, and these subordinates are naturally even more unscrupulous.

After a while, the man ran back again.

"He said his name was Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf."

Winster's men searched their minds to see if there was a big man in Bohemia with that name, and apparently not.

So, someone stood up.

"Mr. Winster, this man dares to be so rude, I will arrest him now and make amends to you."

Before the man could finish speaking, Winster grabbed his pistol and shot him in the head.

Others may not have heard the name and may not know the person. But Winster couldn't have heard it, it was the name of the future head of the house.

The head of the family is not from the Winsters, but from Casimir. Even if Winster was no longer lawless, he did not dare to take Archduke Carr's family lightly, and he would bribe Archduke Carr's butler with a lot of money every year so that he could continue to use his name to do evil.

Franz has the ability to wipe out the Winster family completely, but he still wants to let Archduke Karl's family deal with it, after all, it will be much more decent.

Archduke Karl went to Switzerland, and Albrecht was the de facto head of the house. This time he went to Prague with his family's guards, as well as his direct command of the Vienna City Defense.

Eric Winster, who usually looked like an emperor, ran out in a panic.

He saw the guards of the Grand Duke Karl's family, and the neat military appearance and resolute eyes seemed to return to his childhood.

Thirty-four years ago, Archduke Karl rode a white horse and led his army to the front to fight Napoleon. When the army passed through Eric Winster's estate, he was envious.

Eric Winster wanted to be like that, and his father, Winster Sr., told him that he had to be rich and powerful.

Winster felt the urge to worship, but Albrecht said with a dark face on his horse.

"What have you been doing all these years?"

"It's nothing, I pay the full amount of profits to the Grand Duke every year, and our Winster family will always be your servants."

Winster said these words naturally, and his attitude changed immediately, as if nothing had happened before.

Albrecht raised his hand and threw the note of the Winster family's crimes to Eric Winster.

Eric picked up the paper on the ground, looked at it, and said very calmly.

"It's all fake, it's all slander against me. I ask you to check it again. ”

Albrecht struck Baron Winster in the face with a whip, and the skin immediately opened in his pass.

"Don't you know anything about me?"

Eric Winster didn't answer directly, but asked lightly.

"Do you want to go to war?"

Even if he said this to Prince Wendy Gretz, who was in charge of Bohemia's military at this time, the other party would be afraid of three points.

But Albrecht just said.

"You're not qualified enough."

This made Winster feel a great insult, no one had ever dared to talk to him like this, today it was for the sake of Archduke Karl that he gave face to the young man in front of him, but he didn't expect the other party to be so ignorant.

Winster was about to speak when Albrecht interrupted him.

"Give you twenty minutes to let the women and children leave. Twenty minutes later, there will be no more people alive. ”

Winster couldn't believe what he heard and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Winster believed that it was impossible for an army of such a large scale to operate in the center of the city without causing a sensation, and that his Czech National Independence Army in the city had already numbered more than 10,000 people, and that with the forces at his disposal, it would not be long before the army was surrounded.

At that time, he will lead a raid on the arsenal and then take a train to raid Vienna in reverse.

However, in fact, it was the hooligans and ruffians with small knives and sticks who were already frightened when they saw the regular army.

In fact, the Vienna city defense army may not be as good as the second-rate army in terms of combat effectiveness, but it is definitely the first in the Austrian Empire in terms of the ability to bully people.

These gentlemen are doing bullying all day long. One stop down the street can scare those deflated pants

The battle in the mansion is not a battle at all, at most it can be regarded as slaughter.

The elite of the Czech Republican Army, on which Winster had high hopes, held up in the face of Albrecht's army for less than a quarter of an hour.

It's not just the difference in numbers, it's also the difference in equipment, and in front of the roaring cannons, the Czech warriors who usually boast that they are not afraid of death have become sheep cowering in the corner.

At the same time, this is the first time that a sniper rifle has been put into battle. These sniper rifles with scopes are the latest in the Tyrolean Arsenal.

The Winster family was quickly swept into the dust of history.

In addition to the great harm caused by the Austrian government's military action in Bohemia, it is too late for the civilians to support it, and how many people will come out to criticize the government's actions?

Moreover, the media was under Austrian control, and even if anyone wanted to summon the soul of Winster or complain, they had to consider the morale-boosting German nationalists.

As for the Winster family's estate in Vienna, it was soon taken over by "Mr. K", and the theater was renamed the Darkmoon Theater.

In fact, the reason for this name is entirely because Franz remembered the name of the Darkmoon Circus when he decided to establish a theater company.

"Darkmoon Circus?" At that time, the four chiefs in the room looked at each other, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of "Mr. K".

"Darkmoon Troupe. Just call it that. You can sell yourself, so why not work for yourself? ”

(End of chapter)